DP World helps deliver rice to vulnerable African communities

DP World and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have delivered 5,000 metric tonnes of rice to support humanitarian response operations in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda, helping vulnerable communities facing acute food insecurity.

The consignments were delivered pro bono through DP World’s Shipping Solutions business (formerly Unifeeder), transporting essential food supplies from DP World’s Mundra Terminal, India, to its Port of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to support WFP’s ongoing emergency food assistance programmes.

The DRC is currently experiencing one of the world’s largest hunger crises affecting more than 27 million people, driven by conflict and displacement and compounded by the ongoing effects of the Ebola outbreak. Neighbouring Burundi and Rwanda are also under pressure compounded by an influx of refugees fleeing the crisis.